Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-05

OATI. Lf|MON says GutC tuC AOSdli
Fund now amounts to upward of $780,
900. Owe have received cash for our
large subscriptions with one exception, =
he says, ''and that is a Montreal man
who put down his name for $1,000.
We expect to hear from him this week
at the furthest.
THE Prince of Wales has just granted
a warrant for a new Masonic lodge to be
called the ''Anglo-American.' = The
lodge is formed with view of afford
ng facilities for American residents in
England meeting their brethren Of the
English Grand Lodge under the con
stitutions of the latter body.
Mr.. WILL HEARST, son Of the Cali
fornia millionaire Senator, is to begin
work upon the San Francisco Examiner
March l. He will take the place Of
police-court reporter, and after an
apprenticeship Of three years the paper
is to be given to him, with all the money
he may need to make it a successful
journal. 3
GEN: SHER1DAN's idea Of seacoast
defenses is not to have chain of So
called impregnable forts, but it is to
purchase the best guns in the market
and build a navy that is a navy. You
can run half a dozen of largest vessels.
of the British navy he observes, cup
the Rhine, past those great forts that it
has taken 100 years of time and $780,.
100000 to erect Er5
THERE are three counties in Iowa
where women have been elected and are
today discharging the duties of County
Recorder. These counties are Madison,
Warren, and Cerro Gerdo. sz There are
also ten counties which have elected
women as County School Superintend-
eats. It seems that according to the
State laws women can be elected to any
office except that of legislator.
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The production of gold during 1886
exceeded that Of any previous year
since 1880, and almost equaled the pro-
duction Of that year This amounted
to $35, 100000 in 1886 against $31, $780,
900. The production of silver, as near
ly as can be ascertained, was $40, 1885,
$50. The amount OF gold bullion inn
ported into the United States was ii
$17,947,51S and the exports 1927, 862,-
637.
:. DR.. BENJAMIN w. RICHARDSON, the
well-known London physician, calls at.
tention to. the peculiar periodicity delir-
ium tremensin Great Britain The pres
ence OF The disease. as indicated by the
mortality arising from it, begins to be
prominent in the warm weeks Of May,
and attains its maximum in July; thence
maintaining its place with little change
through August, and declining through
September. 1t reaches its average in
October. There is a slight rise in the
first week of January, the result Of hol;-,
iday indulgence. Wet and cloudy |
of the disease.
ANDREW D. WHITE; in his Forum
article, gives this incident Of Won
Ranke, the historian, whose lectures he
listened to: .'He had a habit" he says,
''of becoming so absorbed in his subject
as to slip down into his chair, holding
his finger up toward the ceiling. and
then, with his eyes fastened on the tip
oft, go mumbling through kind of |
rhapsody, which most OF my German
telioWstudents confessed they could I
not understand Il was a comical
sight half q dozen students crowding
around his desk listening to the profess
or as priests might listen to the shy
on her tripod, the other students beingl
scattered through the room in vari aus |
.stages Of discourag cement.
II move, = said q delegate in Virginia
convention, sthat our chairman take q dose
Of DR.. BULBS Cough Syrup, he is SO hoarse
that lsicannot understand hint That
gentleman has - doubt tEasd this vonder-